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Maximilian Schönherr
Schönherr in 2018
Born (1954-12-27) 27 December 1954 (age 69)
Haßfurt, Bavaria, Germany
EducationUniversities of Würzburg and Munich
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Musician
  • Photographer
AwardsSee Awards
WebsiteOfficial website (in German)

Maximilian Schönherr (born December 27, 1954) is a German journalist, musician, and photographer.

Life

Schönherr was born on December 27, 1954, in Haßfurt, Bavaria, Germany.[1]

After studying mathematics and physics at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich, he worked for Bavarian Broadcasting.[2] In 1986, he received the Kurt-Magnus-Preis for Bit, byte, gebissen, the first series on computers on ARD radio, one of the most important radio awards in Germany. From 1987 to 1988, he traveled to Great Britain and the United States, as well as shorter stays in South Korea, Japan and China.[2] Since 1995, he has worked regularly for Deutschlandfunk and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

His contributions to Deutschlandfunk are Forschung aktuell, its saturday edition Computer und Kommunikation, and its sunday edition Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt, amongst other things.

Since 1987, he writes occasionally for the computer magazin c't. He has written several books on computer animation with Maya and in 2001/2002 had lectureships for visual communication at the FH Aachen and the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.[2]

Schönherr is also a musician and photographer as well as an author in the German Wikipedia since 2007 and later also in the English Wikipedia.[citation needed]

Awards

In 2008, Charité awarded Schönherr the media award „Medizin – Mensch – Technik“ for the radio feature „Smarties für die Prostata – IT-gestützte Visualisierungstechniken in der Medizin“.[3] In 2009 and 2014, he received the Deutscher Hörbuchpreis for the best non-fiction.

Books

  • Die Moral ist gut im Land (Gedichte), Die Gießkanne 1976
  • Maya 3. Ästhetik & Technik von High-End 3D-Animationen, Addison-Wesley 2000
  • Maya 4 Sketches. 30 Tutorials in 3D, Addison-Wesley 2001
  • Autodesk Maya – Die Referenz, Addison-Wesley 2005, ISBN 978-3-8273-2487-0

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maximilian Schönherr.

References

  1. ^ "Deutscher Hörbuchpreis 2014 für Maximilian Schönherr | www.hassfurter-tagblatt.de". 2014-08-09. Archived from the original on 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  2. ^ a b c "Maximilian Schönherr - Vita". www.maxschoenherr.de. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  3. ^ "Preise - Ausgezeichnete Autoren". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-13.
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